from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field experiment, we measure the impact of various norm nudges, including trending … influencing minority behaviors, offering valuable insights for developing targeted and impactful public health strategies. …

causal pathways of these effects are consistent with evidence of increased utilization of recommended health care services …%). Given the modest transfer amounts and considerable effects on health care utilization, we posit that final health outcomes … are likely driven by the health care conditionality, rather than an income effect. The intervention is highly cost …

We provide a framework to disentangle the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to … mental health. But we also document substantial heterogeneity in preferences and/or expectations by vulnerability status … political party plan to comply less. These findings emphasize the need for public health policies to account for heterogenous …

life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample … of 1000 Swedish members of the web panel Userneeds to elicit the relative importance placed on reducing the number of …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …

who engage in a sport or in other forms of exercise, even if modest, have lower odds of being overweight or obese …

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …

impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects … on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the …